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  • 2 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Pete Wells

    Jonnie Boer, a Dutch chef who started as a cook at De Librije in Zwolle, the Netherlands, four decades ago and never left, steering the restaurant to wide acclaim with humble ingredients plucked from nearby streams and fields, died April 23 on the Caribbean island of Bonaire. He was 60. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a pulmonary embolism, according to a representative from his restaurant.

  • 2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Karoun Demirjian |Pete Wells

    In promising to investigate former FBI director James Comey, Trump administration officials pointed to his apparent reference to a slang term on Instagram, describing it as a call for the president’s assassination.

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Pete Wells

    Long before the New Nordic movement, he saw the value in humble ingredients. So did anyone who ate at De Librije, his acclaimed restaurant in the Netherlands. The chef Jonnie Boer in 2012. He was foraging, fishing, fermenting and flying in the face of received notions about fine dining years before those things became pillars of the New Nordic movement. Credit...

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |Pete Wells

    Trump administration officials say that the term refers to assassination, but lexicologists say it emerged from diner slang. In promising to investigate James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, Trump administration officials pointed to his apparent reference to a slang term on Instagram, describing it as a call for the president's assassination.

  • 3 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Pete Wells

    In the 1980s, an assistant at Glamour took her romantic life to the next level with the aid of two lemons and a chicken. At the suggestion of one of the magazine’s editors, who was more or less following a recipe she had found in an Italian cookbook, the assistant poked the lemons full of holes, stuffed them into the bird and loaded it into a hot oven. She ate the chicken with her boyfriend. Not long after, he proposed.

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5 Jul 23

If you hire a critic to write a piece of criticism, and the criticism is good and fair, and the subject doesn't like it, you do not soften the copy. You do not pull the piece, either. You promote the hell out of it and ask the critic what he'd like to write next.

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5 Jul 23

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